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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Tilde
Ability
Phonemic Awareness
Kinesthetic
2. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
CTOPP
Consonant Digraph
Towre
SBOE
3. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Ability
Phonics
Percentile/ percentile rank
MSLE
4. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Oral Language
Breve
Digraph
Standard Scores
5. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Greek layer of language
Auditory Learners
Comprehension
Middle English
6. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Letter naming Chart
Derivative
Six basic types of syllables
VAKT
7. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Composite Score
Prefix
Breve
Phonemic Awareness
8. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Cognitive Assessment
SBOE
Visual Learners
Morphology
9. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Matthew Effect
Phoneme
GORT
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
10. Feeling through fingertips
ESL
Chall's Stage 5
Tactile
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
11. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Expressive language
Composite Score
Towre
12. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Reliability
Criterion-Referenced Test
Diagnostic tests
Suffix
13. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Multisensory
Norm-Referenced Test
Kinesthetic
V >
14. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Auditory Learners
Morphology
Derived Score
15. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Reading Comprehension Support
Oral Language
16. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Syllable
Profile
Derived Score
MSLE
17. Whole body learning
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Phonemic Awareness
Kinesthetic
Trigraph
18. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Vr
Breve
Adolf Kusmaul
19. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Mathew Effect
20. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Standard deviation
Reliability
Criterion-Referenced Test
Reading Comprehension Support
21. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Multi-Sensory Approach
Syllable Instruction
ADHD
22. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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23. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Raw score
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Receptive language
Top-down Reading Approach
24. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Phonics
Tactile
Expressive language
25. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Pre-English
Derivative
Comprehension
Expressive language
26. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Cognitive Assessment
Fluency
Pre-English
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
27. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Diphthong
Universal Screening
Achievement test
28. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Towre
[-'le
IMSLEC
Orthography
29. English as a second language
Progress Monitoring
ESL
Age equivalent
Reliability
30. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
MSLE
Chall's Stage 1
NICHD
Rate
31. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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32. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Derived Score
Multi-Sensory Approach
Chall's Stage 2
Syllable
33. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Standard score
Expressive language
Syntax
WIATII
34. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Vowel Digraph
Phonemic Awareness
Raw score
35. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Phonemic/ decodable words
Morphology
Chall's Stage 1
Impulsivity
36. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Latin layer of language
Texas Education Code 28.06
Multi-Sensory Approach
37. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Synthetic Instruction
Great Vowel Shift
ALTA
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
38. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
SBOE
Chall's Stage 4
Composite Score
Open Syllable
39. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Norm-referenced tests
Derivative
Impulsivity
Chall's Stage 0
40. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Mathew Effect
Progress Monitoring
GORT
Letter naming Chart
41. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Norm-referenced tests
Composite Score
Components of Reading Instruction
ADHD
42. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Derived Score
Towre
Diphthong
The Norman Conquest
43. Individual Educational Plan
Derivative
Open Syllable
Norm-referenced tests
IEP
44. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Base Word
Chall's Stage 2
Towre
ESL
45. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Greek layer of language
Keith Stanovich
Age equivalent
Universal Screening
46. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Funding
MSL
Rate
47. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Ability
Rate
Standard score
Norm-Referenced Test
48. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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49. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Trigraph
Components of Reading Instruction
Phoneme
Phonology
50. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
V-e
Frank Smith
Prefix
Syllable Instruction
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